Life Style / Wine Grapes / Liatiko: Variety indigenous to Greece and used to create red wine. Also grown on the island of Crete where it is used either as a single variety or in a blend with Mandelaria grape-wine. Apparently needing Mediterranean heat it has been found to be a fairly difficult variety to mature in cool climate vineyards, prone to disease and needing special treatment with Gibberellic acid, trunk girdling (a.k.a 'dry scarring', 'cincturing') etc in order to achieve consistent bunchsize results. According to the Geilweilerhof database (see Foreword above) a seedless mutation of the subject variety, named Korinthiaki, is grown world-wide as a tablegrape under many synonym names including Black Corinth, Zante Currant and, renamed by some supermarkets in the USA, the Champagne grape - the latter name not to be confused with a similarly named, but totally unrelated, American labrusca variety released in 1920 as a vigorous, productive, disease resistant and coldhardy, yet low quality cultivar having large, foxy/sweet-tasting fruit.
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